Rabelais

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“Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals, a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)